Racism is a main issue in the novel. ... Sexism is also a problem in the novel. ... There are many female relationships in the novel. ... During Nettie's time in Africa, Samuel notes to her that the Olinka women have a strong relationship between each other. ... The men in the novel are given no last name. ...
The theocratic totalitarian regime operating in Gilead was instigated and is controlled by men, the male protagonists in the novel are seen as caring and sympathetic. ... Although alleged to be one of the architects of Gilead society, throughout the novel he is portrayed as surprisingly sympathetic, if not a little pitiable. ... Now it's something he can't do with his Wife"(Pg-113), and this section provides the strongest image of male wretchedness than at any other point in the novel. ... It can be concluded that the novel frequently views men with a sympathetic eye regardless ...
Written and set in the late 19th century, Bram Stoker's epistolary novel, Dracula, is a pivotal book in the horror/gothic literature. ... I think Stoker showed this as a threat in the novel perhaps because of the society he lived in believed that a woman that embraces her sexuality would have power over a man because she could control and nourish men's greatest sexual desires. ... Although Dracula himself is the embodiment of the horror aspect of the novel, the "hidden horror" lies in the liberation a woman's sexuality. ... " (Stoker 86) With all of this...
There was also a marked increase in women's non-fiction including Marsh's The Female Captive.9 Female authorship brought up anxieties, suggesting that novel reading would take women out of the domestic sphere and spawn desires that could not be met by the domestic contract.10 With Colley using Marsh's book as a source for her biography, arose some controversy. In Elizabeth Marsh's writings of her travels, on no account did it contain any detailed notes compiled at the time of her journey, and no information about the society she was involved with.11 It was also written t...
After noting the extravagance of a luncheon at a men's college, Woolf depicts the inadequate dining at Fernham, a college for women, presenting a drab meal consisting mainly of aplain gravy soup.? ... In the July 1998 issue of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources editors Linda Shult and Phyllis Weisbard give evidence of the denial of entire acceptance of women writers by showing that only eight women made the list of Modern Library'sone hundred best twentieth-century novels in English.? ...
James Carson, from "The Story of One White Woman,"" and Jake Barnes, from The Sun Also Rises, fail to embody the traditional characteristics of masculinity. While James lacks honor and does not represent a protector, or a provider, Jake remains physically emasculated. Despite the seemingly impo...
